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I'm at Fog Creek, and we're introducing Gomix

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Re: I'm at Fog Creek, and we're introducing Gomix

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Post by Stratoscope »

indexerror wrote: post #38
Stratoscope wrote: post #32

Anil, I don't know you, and you certainly don't know me. But I have a word of advice. When you join a company a few weeks before it releases a new software product, have the humility to admit that you had precious little to do with it. Don't write about yourself, at all! Write about the product, what it can do for me, and the amazing team who built it. I'm going to go way out of line and do a bit of a hatchet job on…

Agreed. That is Anil Dash for you. Read his other blog posts as well.

Oh, you are right. I never heard of this guy before, but this quote from his "about" page is choice: "His Twitter account is the only one that’s been retweeted by the White House, Bill Gates and Prince, a succinct summarization of Dash’s interests."

http://anildash.com/about.html

Re: I'm at Fog Creek, and we're introducing Gomix

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Post by EugeneOZ »

One more tool for managers and non-tech product owners, to sell them idea "any cool app can be made just by few clicks of mouse, your dreams will come true, developers are lying about complexity". And in reality all of these "just copy-paste from github" will require tons of work to integrate, because in reality 3 party plugins are not so carefully prepared for Gomix as in their video presentation.

Re: I'm at Fog Creek, and we're introducing Gomix

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Post by m_myers »

notfreeyet wrote: post #47
osium598 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anil Dash is one of the most notorious social justice warriors in the tech world. It's unfortunate Fog Creek made him its CEO - I don't predict the company will flourish under him, since he seems more concerned with promoting an airy political agenda than with making good products. He's non-technical (I don't think he's ever written a line of code in his life, and knows next to nothing about the actual craft of build…

According to this other post this Anil guy has attempted to bully and blackball a founder from our industry. http://www.lorenfeldman.com/anil-dash-is-a-coward-liar-and-b... If this is true, and it seems true, no founder in Silicon Valley should do business or in any way support Anil Dash in anything. I would chastise Joel Spolsky and that other guy too, but it seems unnecessary given the destruction they're inflictin…

This is a time when I'm glad HN highlights new accounts. A train of green accounts making personal attacks is pretty self-explanatory.

Re: I'm at Fog Creek, and we're introducing Gomix

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Post by ransom1538 »

eldavido wrote: post #33
osium598 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anil Dash is one of the most notorious social justice warriors in the tech world. It's unfortunate Fog Creek made him its CEO - I don't predict the company will flourish under him, since he seems more concerned with promoting an airy political agenda than with making good products. He's non-technical (I don't think he's ever written a line of code in his life, and knows next to nothing about the actual craft of build…

So, two things. I used to really respect Joel Spolsky. I've read all of his stuff and really liked it. But I can't help thinking that Fog Creek just isn't that important of a company. As a decidedly "technical" person, I don't know a single person that uses any of their products. And I really do mean, zero . I know plenty of people that use git, IntelliJ, github, Stack Overflow, Twilio, AWS, Firebase, Google Cloud Pl…

"I don't know a single person that uses any of their products."

I would say, Fog Creek created one of the most important pieces of software in history and one of the most used. It is called "Stack Overflow". Sure. Quote how they are technically are not owned by FogCreek and Joel is just a CEO there. But that is lawyers, you know, lawyer-ing.

"In 2008, Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky created Stack Overflow, a question-and-answer Web site for computer programming questions, which they described as an alternative to the programmer forum Experts-Exchange."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fog_Creek_Software#Stack_Overf...

Re: I'm at Fog Creek, and we're introducing Gomix

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Post by kowdermeister »

jszymborski wrote: post #2

I really like the spirit of this, and I hate to be the gnu in the room, but the only thing holding this back is that it's centralised. Again, I totally get how that might sound stupid. "How can we have nice things if we always need to solve the decentralisation problem first?", is one of a billion reasonable responses to my comment, but I'm just a guy who has gotten his heart broken before by the likes of Geocities,…

What's wrong with being centralized? It's just a prototyping platform. I doubt anyone would build a production app on this.

I recently used it to play with websockets and being centralized was the main reason it worked so well.

Re: I'm at Fog Creek, and we're introducing Gomix

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Post by smikhanov »

mistermann wrote: post #16

Considering there are probably many thousands of developer hours invested in this, I hope Fog Creek invests ten or thirty hours into making some quick and dirty youtube videos showing starting from scratch and building out a a few full apps with persistence, some integrations, etc so we can see what that involves. I still don't completely understand what GoMix is exactly from the video shown here.

No, please, not a video — this is the most inefficient way of conveying information about a product aimed at developers. Just write a well-structured text tutorial.

Re: I'm at Fog Creek, and we're introducing Gomix

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Post by kowdermeister »

pacaro wrote: post #50

Is a software company founded in 2000 really "venerable"? I would have thought that would be more appropriate for software companies founded 40+ years ago — around longer than most careers

It's not the length of operation, but the track record.

Re: I'm at Fog Creek, and we're introducing Gomix

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Post by therein »

Stratoscope wrote: post #51
indexerror wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed. That is Anil Dash for you. Read his other blog posts as well.

Oh, you are right. I never heard of this guy before, but this quote from his "about" page is choice: "His Twitter account is the only one that’s been retweeted by the White House, Bill Gates and Prince, a succinct summarization of Dash’s interests." http://anildash.com/about.html

He really sounds like the worst kind of person, doesn't he?

Re: I'm at Fog Creek, and we're introducing Gomix

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Post by arkitaip »

user5994461 wrote: post #45

1/4 of the article about what is Fog Creek and how well everyone knows it. 1/4 of the article about culture and other guys and... I don't know what the hell it's talking about. I'm not even bothering reading half the sentence anymore. 1/4 Then it's talking about other unrelated products now? Outlook something. > "Gomix brings back the fun of the “view source” web" Oh finally. I had to re-read the article 3 times to f…

"With working example apps to remix, a code editor to modify them, instant hosting and deployment - anybody can build a web app on Gomix, for free."

How it works video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPc6dXBFhA4

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